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Watch Coursera's videos with the video app on Jelly Bean
Coursera has a html5 based video viewer that works on the android browser on Jelly Bean, but I would like instead to use the video app, in order to have full screen and better controls.
On my Kindle ...
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2answers
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Are they any browsers without double-tap zoom feature?
I am looking for a browser to use on an Android tablet or mobile device that either does not have a double-tap zoom feature or where the double-tap zoom feature can be disabled. There are other uses ...
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Access website hosted over LAN
I am developing a webpage and would like to see how it looks on mobile browsers, preferably the real thing and not some emulator.
So I thought of making my locally hosted site available over LAN. I ...
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2answers
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My device is trying to open mSecure app whenever I launch an internet browser
Whenever I launch an internet browser on my droid phone it attempts to launch another app (in my case mSecure).
This happens with dolphin and my stock browser so I don't think it's an mSecure ...
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2answers
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Will I have to reset my Nexus 7?
I have a Nexus 7 running Jelly Bean. I was downloading a file and somehow I managed to remove a tick mark some were. Now I can not download anything from the net without Chrome stops working. Then I ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to preserve tabs that were open in Froyo 2.2's stock browser?
When my Droid X's Froyo 2.2 browser gets killed for whatever reason (reboot, memory manager killing it), it loses 100% of its open tabs and reopens with Google's home page in a single tab.
If you ...
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1answer
344 views
Default browser doesn't play embedded music from a website
Today I came upon a situation where I had a website which had an embedded player in it which plays sample music. To my surprise I came to know that the Android 2.3 default browser or Opera web browser ...
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1answer
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Android browser not able to access router's settings page
I can access the router's settings page via 192.168.1.1 with my PC but not with my android device. What can be the reason?
My device: Android gingerbread with stock browser. Also tried with other ...
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1answer
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What browsers are compatible with Adobe Flash Plugin?
Even if Flash Player on Android is no more supported by Adobe, it is still very easy to obtain it (eg, via Aptoide). The problem is that Chrome is not compatible with it. On my Galaxy Note 10 I can ...
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1answer
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Why doesn't the 'enter' button send my chat messages on xat.com?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note and I can't type in the chat box on xat.com. I can type words but when I press Enter it doesn't send. My Note is running Android 2.3.6 and has Flash installed. I've ...
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1answer
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Text displayed as hieroglyphs on website
On my mobile browsers, the text just shows up as hieroglyphs in this site. The menu items also do not show up as well.
Does any one have ideas where this comes from?
Screenshots (click to ...
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0answers
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How do I prevent the Browser and Dolphin HD from deleting old history entries?
So I've noticed that for both the default browser and for the Dolphin HD browser, all the history entries get deleted when you go beyond a certain number of pages visited. Does anyone know how I can ...
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0answers
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Make Android always ask where to save a file on every download
Is it possible (as an OS-level setting or somewhere in application properties)?
Maybe every time a user action leads to saving a file some system event is fired and it's possible to write an app for ...
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0answers
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Issues with mDNS on an Android device
I'm running a local testing environment (MAMP) on a Mac (Mountain Lion), and Im having having difficulty accessing these sites on my Galaxy S3 running 4.1.2
Everything works fine testing using ...
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0answers
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How to create duplicate bookmarks in Android?
I'm using the stock browser on my new Samsung S3 mini (Jellybean) and am having trouble with the browser. When I go to the bookmarks page it seems to have two sections, one called "My Device" and one ...
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0answers
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Cannot open webpage after connected to Wi-Fi/3G
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Ace phone. I'm connected to the Wi-Fi, but cannot go online. It always shows "webpage cannot open". Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram, and Google Play are working fine.
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No web access on Android 2.3.7
I have an LG Optimus V, rooted, with Cyangenmod 7.2.1 (BackSide-IHO) that has developed, lately, a weird network problem:
While on 3G (or wifi) every app on the system with the exception of the two ...
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0answers
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How does the Android browser support Flash
I was just browsing with the "native" Android (v.2.3) browser and I noticed that it displays Flash animations. Well the quality is far away from perfect, but I don't have anything installed for Flash ...
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0answers
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Is it possible to translate websites in Chrome Android in “realtime” like I did on the PC?
On my Windows 7 computer with Chrome I could translate entire webpages using Google translate with the click of a button. Is there a way to do this in Chrome or the stock browser?
OS: 4.1.1
Samsung ...
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0answers
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Text not being underlined in internet app on S4
I have an issue with my S4 browser:
Open Google site using the default Internet app (not Chrome)
Enable predictive text, input about 8 dots and then add some following characters
Notice ...
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0answers
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Why does the google web browser time out when launched on a HTC 1s?
Just recently started to occur. After launching a second time it fires right up. It happened after a facebook update so it seems.
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0answers
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Browser webview.db doesn't store hotmail password, but I can still auto log-in hotmail. Why?
On my rooted Galaxy Nexus 4.1.1, stock browser doesn't store any password for hotmail, but whenever I open hotmail, it log-in automatically.
I checked data/data/com.android.browser/webview.db, the ...
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0answers
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Web Page Not Available on StraightTalk Android ZTE
I have a StraightTalk ZTE Merit, and the browser keeps on saying "web page not available".
Data enabled and Data roaming are both checked under Mobile network settings. For some reason, it will not ...
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0answers
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Stop Chrome caching webpages
Is there anyway to stop Chrome on Android from caching webpages? If not is there either another browser that will allow this or a way to achieve the same functionality?
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0answers
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Mirror the Android Tablet Browser to Windows Browser
Is there any way I could mirror the default browser on Android 4.0+ to a web browser/emulator on my Windows PC? When I developed apps on native Android, there was a way through the IDE.
Can I ...
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0answers
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why big sized images.show at low resolution in webview?
Example: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/up_goer_five.png
Opening that xkcd comic will show it in such a lower resolution on my nexus one that i can't even read the text.
Edit: This happens regardless ...
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0answers
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Why does Chrome on Android 4.1 show magnifier?
What could be a reason for Chrome on Android 4.1 to show an empty magnifier?
Here is an example: http://tjs-projects.de/test/#/erfahrung
When you tap on the cube, sometimes nothing happens.
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0answers
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Some features of Chrome for Android cause it to crash to the homescreen
I have an LG Optimus 2X P990, which is running Android 4.0.4, ParanoidAndroid ROM. I have downloaded Chrome for Android from the Google Play Store and it works like a charm in some places, but others ...
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Chrome crashes on Acer Iconia A200
I'm seeing problems identical to this issue, where Chrome either crashes, becomes unresponsive, or the screen goes black if I switch between tabs. Logcat shows:
OpenGLRenderer is out of memory
...
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0answers
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Enabling geolocation in web browser
I'm partially unable to get geolocation within a web browser. When the phone-wide "use wifi for location" box is unchecked, going to a new website the requires geolocation fails. For example, ...
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open a list of bookmarks in one go?
How can I open a list of bookmarks into different windows of Android's 2.3.5 browser in one go? For example, how can I set up a bookmark list that opens 3 windows in one go with the pages: ...
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Convert or open webarchivexml file on Windows
Using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 I was booking some tickets for a flight and wanted to print the page (as it serves like the ticket), so I saved the page as a webarchivexml file via the browser ...
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0answers
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Hebrew vowels not rendering correctly on web page.
Sample web page: http://hebrewresources.com/html5problems/buttonText.html
The letters are okay but the vowels (niqudot) under them are not aligned properly at all.
Happens in both Firefox and the ...
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0answers
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Internet horizontal scrolling problem
Ive discovered some sites that I can't scroll horizontally on with my galaxy s4 that I could with my old galaxy s1. Why can't the new phone always scroll horizontally ? For instance here is one that ...
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0answers
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opening PDF links causes browser to crash
Using Galaxy S3 i9305 with standard browser. Opening a PDF link causes the browser to crash. Should I just change browser to something like Dolphin? I have already downloaded Adobe Reader.
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0answers
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LG Viper browser won't open, goes to white screen
After tapping on the browser icon, my screen goes all white, and no details are visible other than time,connectivity,etc. I can get to the Google Play Store just fine, and YouTube app and others still ...
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0answers
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sifting through dropdown options
I am browsing a webpage with my stock browser. The web page does not seem to be adapted for mobile phones however. There is a dropdown element on that page with a lot of options. The limitation I find ...
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0answers
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Problem browsing website - content from one page shows up on second page
I'm not sure how to explain this problem better, but I have an example. When using a Pantech Marauder (other ICS phones have had the same problem) to view ...
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0answers
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Suddenly receiving cookie error when browing sites
All of a sudden, when I try to log in to certain mobile sites (using the native browser) I'm receiving the message, "Cookies are not enabled in your browser. Please adjust this in your security ...
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“press” spacebar on website
I am using quite nice timer for measuring my Rubik's Cube solve time: http://mzrg.com/qqtimer/
I want to use it too on my Samsung Galaxy Ace 2, when I don't have access to computer. Problem is, that ...
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0answers
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Doesn't play video/audio online on Motorola Droid
How I said above that video online doesn't run on my Motorola Droid (Android 2.3.7)
When I play video on Youtube for example and it writes that: "Unable to connect to server Touch to retry". When I ...
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0answers
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Cannot open webpages in browsers under Bluestacks
I installed Bluestacks mostly because I wanted to take the advantage of the Android browsers. I installed UC browser, and although it launches correctly, it could not connect to any websites. Any ...
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0answers
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How to troubleshoot a very slow-starting Maxthon browser?
For the most part I like the Maxthon web browser for Android, but I really dislike that, on my phone at least, it is extraordinarily slow to start-up. When I click on the Maxthon icon, the phone's ...
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0answers
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How do I clear the Downloads from the bottom-right part of my toolbar without making too many clicks?
I'm using a Lenovo ThinkPad (OS is Honeycomb), and the downloads come from the included browser of Android.
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0answers
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Browser local file redirect
How can I redirect URL to file location on 4.0.3?
For example, browser want to connect to foo.com but it redirected to file:///sdcard/foo.com/
It can't work through hosts, because it used for ...
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Web browser that doesn't crash so fast?
I've tried out many web browsers on Android, and sadly none is as good as on other platforms.
Either it's slow, annoying to use and switch tabs, or crash a lot.
As an example, I've tried out this ...
